Places: Beer Guide List Enhancement

Two completely different things.

1. The other thread was referring to when you click on a city within the Places directory, which uses an exact match on the city name. Like this: https://www.beeradvocate.com/place/list/?city=Mount+Vernon&c_id=US&s_id=WA
2. You're referring to how we pull places for city beer guides. Like this: https://www.beeradvocate.com/place/city/18/, which also pulls by city name, but supports multiple cities/towns/villages (see note at the bottom of the page).

For the latter, we could switch this to zip code, but we'd either have to match on multiple zip codes or partial zip codes. This starts to breakdown for international, which would still need to rely on city.

Ideally, we'd assign each places a longitude and latitude and then do a radius search, but this would require a complete overhaul, constant maintenance/updating, and hooking into a third party solution. But I don't see any of this happening anytime soon as it's not a priority.

 

In this case, it matches on the list cities and state.

 

As per the note on the bottom of the Beer Guide: Kansas City, Missouri

It's been set like this for at least a decade now.

 

Easy fix. Done. And the one place that matched has automagically dropped from the page.

 

We used to have the ability to somewhat search by phone number using the area code, so you could throw in 201 as an example and get everything for that corner of North Jersey. I liked that a lot.

 

Unfortunately, there's only one of me at the moment, there are much bigger things on my plate, and then there's still this question: What are we going to do with Places?

 

I'm thinking:

A) Enhance
B) Imperial/Double it.
C) Make more gooder
D) All of the above

 

We already did. Happened at the same time as beers.